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Queer World Making

Contemporary Middle Eastern Diasporic Art

By Andrew Gayed

An abundantly illustrated look at how queerness is performed within artistic practice

Premodern archives from the Middle East show rich and diverse homoerotic worlds that were disrupted by the colonial imposition of Western models of sexuality....

Indigenizing California Mission Art and Architecture

By Yve Chavez

Examines how native artists kept their culture alive by creatively adapting under colonial rule

Between 1769 and 1823, the Franciscans established twenty-one missions in California, colonizing the ancestral territories of many Native communities between present-day Sonoma...

Resisting the Nuclear

Art and Activism across the Pacific

By Elyssa Faison, Alison Fields

A transpacific tour of nuclear humanities

From uranium mines on the Navajo Nation to craters caused by nuclear testing on the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, the production and deployment of nuclear weapon technologies have disproportionately harmed...

Reenvisioning Histories of American Art

Transforming Museum Practice

By Jami C. Powell, Michael Hartman

How museums are changing to embrace a more inclusive vision of American art

US museums have faced increasing pressure to reckon with their histories in light of movements against racism, violence, and the erosion of human...

Queering Contemporary Asian American Art

By Laura Kina, Jan Christian Bernabe, Susette Min, Kyoo Lee

Queering Contemporary Asian American Art takes Asian American differences as its point of departure, and brings together artists and scholars to challenge normative assumptions, essentialisms, and methodologies within Asian American art and visual culture. Taken...

War Baby / Love Child

Mixed Race Asian American Art

By Laura Kina, Wei Ming Dariotis, Kent A. Ono

War Baby / Love Child examines hybrid Asian American identity through a collection of essays, artworks, and interviews at the intersection of critical mixed race studies and contemporary art. The book pairs artwork and interviews...